For thousands of years, Mauna Kea has been a cultural and spiritual mecca for the native Kanaka Maoli people. It’s a place whose ecosystem has been traditionally managed by the Kanaka Maoli, and has been threatened in recent years by invasive plants and increasingly extreme weather patterns. It’s a religious site where tribal members have traditionally practiced services, a cultural center for celebration and mourning, and the site of some human remains from Kanaka Maoli tribal members buried there. It’s also where some UC Berkeley linked organizations want to build a telescope.
Read MoreOn September 17th, 2019, in the days just before the international climate strikes and walkouts as a part of Fridays for Future, the UC announced its commitment to divest from fossil fuel industries. The UC Regents decision passed with 77% approval, and 80% on the Berkeley campus, an astonishingly high approval rate for these votes. The UC went above and beyond the student and the faculty demands, and agreed to full divestment.
Read MoreOver the past few years, the “personal vs. political” conversation has ricocheted throughout environmental communities and remains a point of discussion among scholars and activists alike.
In a recent article, I dipped my toes into this debate. This time, I took a plunge.
Read MoreA country still transitioning to industrialization, the Philippines will face an even larger population of food insecurity within the country, as well as a decline in economic activities as climate change’s effects become more dramatic in the coming decades.
Read MoreThe day of the anniversary celebration the weather was beautiful, musicians were on stage, and whole families were sitting in the grass, watching the day pass. It was a scene completely at odds with the seedy People’s Park I had always imagined. My immediate reaction was to assume that this sense of peace and community is anomalous. But those who frequent the park told me that, in their experience, it’s commonplace for the park to feel like that.
Read MoreI was recently granted the opportunity to become involved with The Green Life program, San Quentin’s environmental literacy program for the prison’s inmates. Started by Angela Sevin in 2009, The Green Life is one of the few environmental education programs that exists within a United States prison.
Read MoreThe Green New Deal launched on February 7th, and received huge public support and momentum from across the country, especially from young activists and environmentalists.
Read MoreIn the decades following Plan Colombia’s initiation, rates of Parkinson’s and certain types of cancer have increased enormously. For years, scientists have studied and found an association between Parkinson’s and Roundup, and many now agree that there is also an epigenetic connection.
Read MoreAs an Environmental Science major who is deeply involved in a multitude of environmental student orgs, I find myself immersed in a community of mostly upper middle class white females. I have found myself in so many spaces where the topics of race and inaccessibility to the environmental movement are not discussed and often pushed under the rug when brought up, because nobody really knows how to address them.
Read MoreAs an Environmental Science major who is deeply involved in a multitude of environmental student orgs, I find myself immersed in a community of mostly upper middle class white females. I have found myself in so many spaces where the topics of race and inaccessibility to the environmental movement are not discussed and often pushed under the rug when brought up, because nobody really knows how to address them.
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